Someone, answer this question for me.
As I was trying to tell my brain to shut up so that I could get to sleep last night, I was thinking about this. A few days ago, I watched some webisodes of Heroes online. I had seen commercials for the next season while watching the Olympics, so I had been curious.
There's a character named Hiro on the show whose special ability is time travel. Alright, that's nothing terribly new. However, during parts of some episodes, the series shows that he is also able to stop a moment in time and basically walk around in it, freely do stuff, talk, etc. For example, he went back in time to the moment someone was murdered in order to find out who the killer was.
My question is... light travels in time too, right? Sure, it's probably the fastest bloody thing in the known and a few other unknown universes, with the possible exception of social gossip, but ultimately as far as I know, light does have a measurable speed, right?
Right.
So fictional time-traveling abilities aside, are you supposed to be able to see things if you freeze time around you and leave only yourself outside the bounds? After all, isn't sight based on light traveling and slapping onto nerves in your eyeball? Assuming you can continue to move and manipulate things around, does this mean you could walk through a frozen beam of light and shove it around and potentially mold it and push it together and spread it all over? Does breathing still work the same as usual? Do most or all of the laws of physics? Am I really going to listen to this Gershwin CD on replay all day?
Anyway, maybe I just missed or forgot something I learned a long time ago in school. My comments are always open.
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5 comments:
I haven't seen many episodes of heroes, but I always thought of that ability as a speeding up of thinking instead of a slowing of time. Like he speeds up his thought processes and thoroughly examines the moment around him, instead of slowing time down. At least, that's what I decided was happening in Johnny's visions in the Dead Zone. But for Hiro, if we assume he is slowing down time (which is much more likely than stopping it)he would still be able to see things. I like the idea of his thinking speeding up instead of time slowing down cuz it does solve the breathing problem, but I guess you then say that time is only slowed down outside his body. There are things that can stop/slow light. Light has been stopped with supercooled gas, and the gravitational field around a black hole will slow down light and time. If Hiro's a miniature black hole, this is perfectly possible :p
I guess Hiro would be seeing like a camera--in snapshot slices of time. He would be able to manipulate light, say be standing in front of it or using a mirror. You know, the normal ways. But it would only be manipulated if he stayed in position and then restarted time. Otherwise, nobody would notice. Because he's slowed/stopped time, nothing he does will happen until time restarts.
I imagine the sounds would be the weirdest thing. It'd just be a hum, like an average of all the sounds at that instant, if time is slowed. If time is outright stopped I guess it would be complete silence, since soundwaves cause your eardrums to vibrate in time. Now I'm wondering why this doesn't apply to light. Probably because I can imagine a snapshot of light easier than a snapshot of sound.
man. That was scattered...
That was a nice answer :) . I liked that. It's kind of fun to think about this. Oh, have you ever seen Over The Hedge? I absolutely can't help but be reminded about Hammie's little moment(s?) near the end of the movie. It's very hilarious. But you wouldn't understand if you'd never seen it. Anyway, it almost applies so directly that I can't help but laugh.
hehe, i've always just thought that sci-fi manipulations of, in theory, unalterable, universal laws are just that--manipulations of the laws of the verse. that being said, it is a tv show...
I also go with the theory of Hiro slowing time down. There are points in the series where Hiro has issues with his powers and I think this gets illustrated more (time going fast but not fast enough, or slow but not slow enough, as illustrated by clock hands perhaps). Though its been so long since I've really watched what with the writer's and their striking and such.
Anyways yeah, Heroes, it's good, no matter how annoying peter petrelli is and however predictable things get. I mean come on, Hiro! He's just so adorable! Not to mention little fixes machines kid.
And there's my Heroes squee of the month ^_^;
~Kessala
I wonder if it feels different when you have to rewind/fast forward and travel further from your current moment in time (for example, when Hiro has to hike back a good few centuries to feudal Japan or whatnot in some episodes).
I mean.... does it take longer ;D ?
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